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Laura Taylor is one of just 20 environmental researchers in North America to receive the prestigious Leopold Leadership Fellowship for 2013.
CALS Research, NCSU's insight:
Dr. Laura Taylor' research focuses on policy evaluation and valuation of natural resources & the environment. Read more here: http://bulletin.ncsu.edu/2013/01/fellow/
Leopold Leadership Program http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/
Center for Environmental & Resource Policy at NCSU
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CALS researchers find that one of the most aggressive invasive ant species in the US, the Argentine ant, appears to have met its match in the Asian needle ant. Former NC State PhD student Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice & Dr. Jules Silverman, Entomology, published their findings in PLoS One:
http://scienceblog.com/59643/asian-needle-ants-displacing-other-aggressive-invaders/
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056281